BRAWL ERUPTS AFTER 'HAWKS FALL BEHIND IN 15TH.Byline: Gideon Rubin Staff Writer LANCASTER - A bench-clearing brawl A bench-clearing brawl, sometimes known as a basebrawl, is a form of ritualistic fighting that occurs in sports, most notably baseball and ice hockey, in which both teams leave their dugouts, bullpens, or benches and charge the field or ice surface in order to fight one erupted in the top of the 15th inning Monday night when Evel Bastida charged the mound and swung his bat into the back of JetHawks pitcher Josh Kranawetter. Kranawetter had hit Bastida with a pitch in the back after John Castellano broke a 4-4 deadlock with a three-run double. Kranawetter lay on the field for several minutes as the brawl continued. Law-enforcement officials were called onto the field to help restrain players on both sides, but it didn't seem to help, as five minutes after the initial brawl the entire JetHawks bench chased the Inland Empire In·land Empire A region of the northwest United States between the Cascade Range and the Rocky Mountains, comprising eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, northern Idaho, and western Montana. Farming, lumbering, and mining are important to the area. team toward the right-field line. Earlier, Marland Williams, whose blazing speed has created all kinds of problems for opposing teams, and Monday he helped create a new statistical category. Outfielder Jay Garthwaite unofficially took the lead in that category on a play that sent the JetHawks and Inland Empire into extra innings Noun 1. extra innings - overtime play until one team is ahead at the end of an inning; e.g. baseball extra time, overtime - playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie . The JetHawks, who rallied from a 4-0 deficit going into the bottom of the seventh, trailed 4-3 with one out in the bottom of the eighth when Williams scored from third on a Garthwaite popup. Inland Empire shortstop Eddie Menchaca fielded the ball near outfield grass behind second base but threw wide right of catcher Chris Collins. --Matchup: JetHawks RH Justin Wechsler (9-9, 4.92 ERA) will pitch against Rancho Cucamonga's Tim Bittner (2-0, 0.00) tonight at 7:15 at The Epicenter. Gideon Rubin, (818) 713-3607 gideon.rubin(at)dailynews.com MINOR-LEAGUE REPORT --Sunday's top performers: Leo Rosales Leonel Rosales (born May 28, 1981 in Los Angeles, California) is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher who is currently with the Arizona Diamondbacks organization. Rosales attended California State University, Northridge. (Cal State Northridge) earned his third save for Single-A Eugene (Ore.) in beating Boise (Idaho) 3-2. ... Brett Wayne (Royal High of Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. ) had three hits, an RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in and a run scored for Single-A South Georgia South Georgia, island, c.1,450 sq mi (3,760 sq km), S Atlantic Ocean, c.1,200 mi (1,930 km) E of Cape Horn. A dependency of the Falkland Islands from 1908 to 1985 (along with the South Sandwich Islands, a group of nine small, volcanic islets c. . ... Phil Avlas (Kennedy of Granada Hills) had a double, an RBI and a run scored for Single-A South Bend (Ind.). - Chris Cocoles CAPTION(S): box Box: MINOR-LEAGUE REPORT (see text) |
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